Brian’s Threaded Comments are now officially driftwood.
They’ve been badly maintained for a while, but now it’s official.
There’s no need to maintain the plugin anymore, since WordPress has now built-in threaded comments that are very similar to mine, which work with themes and plugins and don’t require you to mess around with your comments.php and all the other cumbersome stuff.
If you need threaded comments, I suggest you upgrade to the latest version of WordPress, and turn them on. They should be compatible with the data generated by Brian’s Threaded Comments, so it should be a smooth transition.
It seems they don’t migrate smoothly, so I’ll have to look into migrating the data.
I won’t rule out that the plugin might be resurrected later on, if I find that I have something unique to offer, but for now it’s dead.
Thanks to everyone who downloaded and used the plugin.